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viyancs
viyancs

Reputation: 2339

Javascript if else statement optimisation

I want to ask about optimisation in JavaScript if else statement.I have the code like this 

if ( thisIsTrue )
    printMe("someMessage");

And the code can be optimisation like this

thisIsTrue && printMe("someMessage");

The question is what the code of thisIsTrue && printMe("someMessage"); only works in statement who has been return true.

What if the return is false?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 723

Answers (5)

dku.rajkumar
dku.rajkumar

Reputation: 18568

Although this is not optimisation and not suggested but i would explain the details.

in a combination of operands like A && B , 1st the operand A will be executed and if it return true the second operand will be executed otherwise it will be terminated because if the 1st operand is true the result will depends on the second operand else if the 1st is false result will surely be false irrespective of the second operand so it doesnot execute the second one. so

true && alert("someMessage"); will show alert

and

!false && alert("someMessage....."); will also show

combinding the above two, you can write is as 

condition ? alert("someMessage") : alert("someMessage.....");

fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/9q2jC/1/

Upvotes: 2

Lion
Lion

Reputation: 19027

If you have a series of If-Then-Else statements, you should try your best to organize them from most likely to least likely. This way the program doesn't have to traverse all the unlikely conditions to get to the likely ones, which will be called more often.

A commonly used tactic to wring whatever overhead might be left out of a large group of simple conditional statements is replacing If-Then-Else's with Switch statements. This is a tough one to qualify. Performance varies widely, although you almost always come out with some kind of improvement, even if it is small. As always, proper code design is much more important. See there are good test cases with switch and if elseif else

Upvotes: 1

Yevgeny Simkin
Yevgeny Simkin

Reputation: 28349

You should avoid turning your code into a puzzle either for someone else, or for the future you. There is nothing to be gained from mixing your conditions with your output. It's not going to "optimize" anything, and it will cost you lots of time in the future as you try to debug this.

I would argue you should err on the side of MORE verbosity not less.

Upvotes: 13

kunkun kurniawan
kunkun kurniawan

Reputation: 86

thisIsTrue ? printMe("is true") : printMe("is false");

Upvotes: 4

Sergio Tulentsev
Sergio Tulentsev

Reputation: 230336

This is hardly an optimisation (in terms of performance).

Also, these two forms are not identical.

The latter is an expression, while the former is a statement.

Upvotes: 1

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